Introduction

The wildfires incidents are increasing recently. This project can help paint the picture of the state of the earth and how it is important to protect the forest and our environment.

The data is used in this project collected is SQL lite file from: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/rtatman/188-million-us-wildfires

Important:

Please download the SQL data set (FPA_FOD_20170508.sqlite) from the link above and put it into data folder before executing the codes for this project.

This data publication contains a spatial database of wildfires that occurred in the United States from 1992 to 2015. This dataset was originally generated to support the national Fire Program Analysis (FPA) system. The wildfire records are acquired from the reporting systems of federal, state, and local fire organizations.

Summary Information

The data reveals that the state had the most wildfire cases during 1992-2015 was CA with 189550 wildfires.

The state had the least wildfire cases during 1992-2015 was DC with 66 wildfires.

The biggest wildfire size was INOWAK, and it happened at AK, in 1997 with the size 6.06945^{5} arces, and it was classified as class G.

There are 7 wildfire size classes. A is the smallest size and G is the biggest size.

The most wildfire size class happened during 1992-2015 was B, and it happened 939376 times.

The least wildfire size class happened during 1992-2015 was G, and it happened 3773 times.

Table

Fire count by states during 1992-2015

This table shows the Top 10 number of fires by states during 1992-2015. With this info, we can have an overview of total number of wildfires happened in 23 years as well as the which state had the most wildfires.

State Fire Count
CA 189550
GA 168867
TX 142021
NC 111277
FL 90261
SC 81315
NY 80870
MS 79230
AZ 71586
AL 66570

Top 10 uears with the most fire counts

This table shows the Top 10 number of fires by year during 1992-2015. With this info, we can have an overview of total number of wildfires happened most.

Year Fire Count
2006 114004
2000 96416
2007 95573
2011 90552
1999 89363
2005 88604
2001 86587
2008 85378
2010 79889
2009 78325

Charts

1 - Map chart for distribution of wildfires across the US in 2015

This map chart shows the distribution of wildfires across the US in 2015.

From this chart, we can see the number of wildfires are very high in California and Texas.

The following chart shows the progression of the top-5 states with most fire total counts during 1992-2015.

2 - Fire Sizes

This Horizontal barplot shows the relationship among wildfire size classes based on the number of fires happened during 1992-2015. There are 7 wildfire size classes from A to G, with A is the smallest size class and G is the biggest size class.

From this barplot, B size class was the most wildfires while the G size class had the least number of wildfires.

3 - Causes of Wildfires

This historgram shows the relationship among the causes of wildfires during 1992-2015. From this Treemap, debris burning was the cause of the most number of wildfires.